1. CA Nimsoft XenDesktop
VDI Monitoring
Lax Sakalkale
Sr. Director Product
Management
Virtualization, Cloud
Solutions
2. Agenda
— Nimsoft Introduction
— Nimsoft Solution Overview
— Architecture
— Nimsoft Offering for XenDesktop VDI (in the works)
— Q&A
3. Nimsoft. Leading from the front.
— Independent division within CA
(acquired 3/2010)
— Direct offices worldwide
− USA, UK, Spain, Norway, Germany,
Sweden, Australia, Benelux, Singapore,
India, Latin America
4. Happy customers. Loyal Partners.
Over 1200 customers
500+ leading xSPs operating in
36+ countries around the world
NIMSOFTALLIANCE : NIMSOFTPLACEMENTCENTER
6. Nimsoft – Open, Flexible, Extensible
High Availability
SaaS
Highly Scalability
On Premise
CMDB Enrichment Unified
Configuration
Management Display Management
Portal
Service Desk APIs APIs
Incident
Reporting
Unified Reporter
Asset
OOTB Reports
Management
Power
Efficiency
Network
LAN & WAN
Server
Physical & Virtual
Collection
Database
IT & Business
Storage Application
Commercial & Custom
Cloud
Public & Private
Over 135 Probes
7. Nimsoft Unified Monitoring Architecture
DASHBOARDS PERFORMANCE REPORTS SLA COMPLIANCE ANALYSIS
SaaS
ALARM/
HUB QOS On Premise
DATA
MANAGER
DATABASES
Admin Alarm QOS Data
API
Application
MESSAGE BUS Servers
SSL Tunnel
Server A / Site A Server B / Site B Server C / Site C Database Servers
Robot/Site Hub Robot/Site Hub Robot/Site Hub
SNMP CDM Logfile Processes email Database App email servers
Probe Probe Probe Probe Probe Probe Probe
Network CPU Disk Memory Logs Process
Devices
9. Monitoring for Citrix XenDesktop VDI Platform
— Key Monitoring requirements
− A lot of moving parts and connectivity to be monitored – Users Login, DDCs, Directory,
License Server, PVSs, Hypervisor- hosts and VMs, XenApps, ica_response, servers, storage,
Logs, etc.
− Multi-dimensional, multi-tiers visibility and monitoring
UCS
XenDesktop
Users
10. Nimsoft for XenDesktop VDI
A turnkey solution for XenDesktop VDI monitoring
— Flexible, scalable and end-to-end monitoring
— Discovers and monitors all physical, logical and virtual
components inside and outside of XenDesktop
— Event correlation and analysis
— Customizable, role-based dashboards
— Service level and usage optimization reporting
— True multi-tenant SaaS delivery
— Usage-based metering and billing
— OOTB Unified Dashboards and run-books
11. Nimsoft Unified Monitoring
For XenDesktop, XenApp
UMP
DASHBOARDS PERFORMANCE REPORTS SLA COMPLIANCE ANALYSIS
SaaS
ALARM/
HUB QOS On Premise
DATA
MANAGER
DATABASES
Admin Alarm QOS Data
API MESSAGE BUS
SSL Tunnel
Citrix XenDesktop Customers/Tenants
Robot/Site Hub
XenDesktop Cloud
and other UCS Infra/Tool
Probes Probes
